RABAT (Reuters) - At least two African illegal migrants drowned when their rickety boat capsized off Morocco's southern Atlantic coast on their way to the Spanish Canary islands, local media reported on Friday.
The state news agency MAP said 18 other migrants were missing. It added two bodies and pieces of a wrecked boat washed up off Bir Anzaran, small coastal village near Dakhla about 1,500 km (900 miles) southwest of Rabat.
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